University as Change Manager of Attitudes towards Environment (The Importance of Environmental Education)

Macarena Esteban Ibáñez, Daniel Musitu Ferrer, Luis Vicente Amador Muñoz, Francisco Mateos Claros and Francisco Javier Olmedo Ruiz
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Macarena Esteban Ibáñez: Faculty of Social Sciences, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Daniel Musitu Ferrer: Faculty of Social Sciences, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Luis Vicente Amador Muñoz: Faculty of Social Sciences, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Francisco Mateos Claros: Ceuta Faculty of Education, Economy and Technology, University of Granada, 52005 Granada, Spain
Francisco Javier Olmedo Ruiz: Ceuta Faculty of Education, Economy and Technology, University of Granada, 52005 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: The university is an essential participant in education, a key place where societal change processes are developed. So, it must be a place to bring up current challenges and social requirements. That is the reason why it holds the responsibility to assure the creation of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in the students to achieve an effective solution to environmental issues. The objective of this research was the assessment of the attitudes, knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior in university students from different faculties, studies, and degrees, as well as their influence in this group. The results show that most of the students have previous concepts of environment, and they consider that a good environmental education is necessary to solve the environmental issues that they have around. This proves that key factors in attitudes become essential elements for changing them. The differences made by gender and studies in several fields in attitudes (cognitive and emotional levels) are also confirmed.

Keywords: attitudes; university students; environment; environmental education; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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